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Sexual selection creates colourful differences between sexes in Goldie's bird-of-paradise.Male above; female below. Painting by John Gerrard Keulemans.. Sexual selection is a mechanism of evolution in which members of one sex choose mates of the other sex to mate with (intersexual selection), and compete with members of the same sex for access to members of the opposite sex (intrasexual ...
Schematic symbols for male and female connector pins. In electrical and mechanical trades and manufacturing, each half of a pair of mating connectors or fasteners is conventionally designated as male or female, [1] a distinction referred to as its gender. [2] The female connector is generally a receptacle that receives and holds the male connector.
Commitment and marriage: A human male may be interested in mating with a female who seeks marriage. [8] This is because he has exclusive sexual access to the female, so any offspring produced in the relationship will be genetically related to him (unless the female has sexual intercourse with another male outside of the marriage).
During courtship, males actively search for females; [27] if a male finds a female, he slowly circles around the female whilst trembling his first and second leg near her. [ 25 ] [ 26 ] Male leg-trembling causes females (who were in the "net stance") to orient towards and often to clutch the male. [ 25 ]
D-subminiature connector gender changers BNC connector female to female gender changer. A gender changer is a hardware device placed between two cable connectors of the same type and gender. An example is a cable connector shell with either two female or two male connectors on it (male-to-male or female-to-female), used to correct the ...
The findings of these studies have often been applied across the sexes and healthcare providers have assumed a uniform approach in treating both male and female patients. More recently, medical research has started to understand the importance of taking the sex into account as the symptoms and responses to medical treatment may be very ...
Since the 1990s, some areas have seen up to 25 per cent more male births than female births. [55] Sperm sorting utilizes the technique of flow cytometry to analyze and 'sort' spermatozoa . During the early to mid-1980s, Dr. Glenn Spaulding was the first to sort viable whole human and animal spermatozoa using a flow cytometer, and utilized the ...
Sex is assigned as either male or female, leading to specific terms: [12] [2] [20] Assigned male at birth A person of any age and irrespective of current gender whose sex was assigned as male at birth. Often shortened to AMAB. Synonyms include male assigned at birth (MAAB) and designated male at birth (DMAB). [21] [22] Assigned female at birth